Explanation:

Article 143 (1) authorizes the President to refer to this Court questions of law or fact which appear to him to ha ye arisen or are likely to arise and which are of such a nature and of such public importance that it is expedient to obtain the opinion of the Supreme Court upon them. This Article provides that when such questions are referred to this Court by The President, the Court may, after such hearing as it thinks fit, report to the President its opinion thereon. Under 143 (2) The President may notwithstanding anything in the proviso to Article 131, refer a dispute of the kind mentioned in the said proviso to the Supreme Court for opinion and the Supreme Court shall, after such hearing as it thinks fit, report to the President its opinion thereon. In the case of reference made underArticle 143(2) it is the constitutional obligation of this Court to make a report on that reference embodying its advisory opinion, in a reference •made under Article 143(1) there is no such obligation. (In The Matter Ofi Under Article 143 v. Unknown AIR 1965 SC 74Sf